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Summary

For courses in deviance and corporate crime. Elite Devianceincludes both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause great harm. Unique in its scope, Elite Deviancecovers not only corporate crime and political corruption in historical and contemporary contexts, but also the relationship between the two. Numerous current examples and case studies grab students' interest and reinforce all major theoretical points in the book. Note:MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit:www.mysearchlab.comor you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchLab with Pearson eText (at no additional cost). ValuePack ISBN-10: 020586371X / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205863716

Author Biography

David R. Simon earned a PhD in sociology from Rutgers University in 1975, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley's Alcohol Research Group in 1983-1984.

Dr. Simon is the author of Elite Deviance (Tenth Edition 2012) and eight other books. He has also published over 50 scholarly articles, book chapters, and review essays. He has written over a dozen pieces in popular magazines and newspapers. He is currently retired and continues to write books and articles.

Table of Contents

Preface

p. xi

The Nature of Elite Deviance

p. 1

Scandal-Plagued America

p. 1

The Bailout Rackets

p. 3

Scandals Within the Economic Sphere

p. 6

A Theory of Elite Deviance

p. 9

The U.S. Social Structure: The Power Elite

p. 10

Economy-State Linkages and the Functions of Government

p. 20

Benefits That Elites Seek from the State

p. 28

The Higher Immorality and Links Between

Various Kinds of Crime

p. 30

The Classification of Elite Deviance

p. 33

Acts of Economic Domination

p. 36

Crimes of Government and Governmental Control

p. 36

Elite Deviance as a Denial of Basic Human Rights

p. 37

Conditions Leading to Elite Deviance

p. 37

Consequences of Elite Deviance

p. 38

Conclusion

p. 39

Critical Thinking Exercise 1.1

p. 40

Endnotes

p. 40

Elite Deviance and the Higher Immorality

p. 45

The Nature of the Higher Immorality

p. 45

Case Study: Inequality of Wealth, Income, and Power in America

p. 46

The Wealth Distribution

p. 47

The Relationship Between Wealth and Power

p. 48

Income and Power

p. 49

The Higher Immorality and the Political Economy

p. 53

Corporate Compensation: Salaries, Taxes, and Perks

p. 53

Welfare for the Well-Off: Tax Breaks

p. 56

The Asset-Depletion Range

p. 57

Taxes and Multinational Corporations

p. 58

Misappropriated Charity: Foundations

p. 58

The Creation of Crisis

p. 60

Antitrust Laws

p. 62

The Higher Immorality and Corporate Crime

p. 63

Penalties: The Double Standard

p. 65

Public Awareness

p. 66

Organized Crime and the Business Elite

p. 67

Organized Crime and Repression

p. 67

Organized Crime and Profits

p. 70

Organized Crime and the Political Elite

p. 74

The Vatican Bank Scandal

p. 78

Conclusion

p. 81

Critical Thinking Exercise 2.1

p. 83

Endnotes

p. 83

Corporate Deviance: Monopoly, Manipulation, and Fraud

p. 87

Costs of Corporate Crime

p. 87

Penalties for Corporate Crime

p. 87

Monopolies

p. 89

The Corporate Frankenstein

p. 91

Price-Fixing

p. 94

Case Study: The Electrical Conspiracy

p. 97

Price Gouging

p. 99

Taking Advantage of the Disadvantaged

p. 99

Taking Advantage of Unusual Events

p. 100

Making Extraordinary Profits Through Deception

p. 101

Deceptive Advertising

p. 104

Fraud

p. 109

Case Study: The Madoff Scandal

p. 112

Conclusion

p. 116

Critical Thinking Exercise 3.1

p. 117

Endnotes

p. 118

Corporate Deviance: Human Jeopardy

p. 122

Individual Jeopardy

p. 122

Unsafe Products

p. 122

Food Pollution

p. 127

The Tobacco Industry

p. 135

Dangerous Working Conditions

p. 140

Collective Jeopardy

p. 148

Wasting Resources

p. 150

Polluting the Environment

p. 153

Conclusion

p. 159

Critical Thinking Exercise 4.1

p. 160

Endnotes

p. 160

National Defense, Multinational Corporations, and Human Rights

p. 165

The Military-Industrial Complex

p. 173

The Defense Establishment and Its Origins

p. 173

Consequences of Defense Policies

p. 179

The New Global Economy

p. 181

Deviance and Multinational Corporations

p. 182

Government Policy

p. 185

Dumping Toxic Waste

p. 186

Human Rights, Multinationals, and U.S. Foreign Policy

p. 187

Iran

p. 191

Latin America

p. 192

Chile

p. 195

Assessing U.S. Support

p. 196

Conclusion

p. 198

Critical Thinking Exercise 5.1

p. 198

Endnotes

p. 199

Political Corruption: Continuity and Change

p. 203

Money and Politics

p. 207

Purchasing Goods and Services

p. 208

Public Funds

p. 209

Public Property

p. 210

Regulation of Commercial Activities

p. 211

Zoning and Land Use

p. 212

The Legislative Process

p. 212

Election Fraud

p. 215

Unfair Campaign Conduct

p. 216

Scandal-Plagued America: The Bush Years as Metaphor

p. 217

Continuing Corruption

p. 219

Conclusion

p. 222

Critical Thinking Exercise 6.1

p. 222

Endnotes

p. 223

Political Deviance

p. 225

The Corrupting Environment of Politics

p. 231

Domestic Political Deviance

p. 234

Secrecy, Lying, and Deception

p. 234

Abuse of Power by Government Agencies

p. 240

Political Prisoners

p. 244

Official Violence

p. 247

International Crimes

p. 253

U.S. Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of Other Nations

p. 253

War Crimes

p. 255

Conclusion

p. 257

Critical Thinking Exercise 7.1

p. 258

Endnotes

p. 259

Understanding Elite Deviance

p. 264

Why Elite Deviance?

p. 264

Elite Deviance and the Sociological Imagination: A Paradigm for Analysis